[CentOS-devel] inter-SIG dependencies

[Karanbir Singh]

On 16/06/15 12:28, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 15/06/15 02:29, Lokesh Mandvekar wrote:
>> Should've sent this earlier, but better late than never.
>>
>> At the last virt SIG meeting we were looking at good places to keep packages
>> like cockpit, which I'm not sure belongs in a particular SIG yet.
> 
> I believe there is a cockpit build in the CentOS Atomic Host repos now,
> so maybe Atomic SIG might be the best place to park this at for now.
> 
> the other way of looking at this might be: who's the target user base,
> and within that which SIG delivers the most relevant content. Put stuff
> closest to them.
> 
>> Also, it was mentioned that we could make SIG repos depend on each other, and
>> IIUC, KB has an example (in theory atleast) demonstrating that.
>>
>> Over to you KB..
> 
> Atomic SIG pulls from the Virt SIG packages, but neither are in a
> released state, so there is no hard dependency in place there as yet.

expanding on this, once content is 'released' the corrosponding
centos-release-<sig>-component.rpm can have a requires: for the
dependancy repo via a requires: centos-release-<other sig>-component

handling this at the rpm level makes it simplistic to manage with
existing tooling as well.


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